Epic weekend was epic

We had a very busy weekend. Way too busy. And with another overnight job unceremoniously dumped onto my lap tonight, I’m thinking tomorrow I’m going to sleep pretty well until Jodi gets home from work.

Somehow we managed to pick the busiest time I’ve seen in a while, to do our groceries, wherein all the old people were out in force to block aisles with their silly-looking two-tier grocery carts while they labored to stoop to get their cans of spaghetti sauce. We got the car fixed — our mechanic replaced the right front strut assembly. And while we were there, I fixed Samo’s computer. And again the next day. Interesting case, that — the dist-upgrade from Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) to 9.10 (Karmic) somehow mangled both GRUB and the installed kernel, leaving behind old versions of both. The 9.04 kernel wouldn’t load the sound drivers, as the sound drivers were compiled against 9.10, though for some reason everything else worked. When I fixed that and reinstalled GRUB, it wouldn’t rescan the partitions and list her XP install, so I had to upgrade GRUB to 2.0, which Karmic defaults to now. FYI, the configuration schema in 2.0 is completely different from 1.x, so go check it out now before you have a GRUB-related disaster and have to do research on the fly.

We also got our wedding invitations all done with the help of Mark and Sara’s magical color injket printer, a hell of a lot of work in itself with a crappy dollar-store paper cutter, and are now working on doing some wax seals on the envelopes before we ship them out. A few of you imaginary people out there in internet land (heretofore known as inter-people) who are kind enough to read my internet websitepage daily, may well get invitations, especially those for whom we specifically know your addresses. We printed extras so we could send out a few keepsakes to some of you inter-people we consider friends. The RSVP cards will not be pre-stamped for you, though, as we anticipate you will not be joining us, but on the super-slim, pie-in-the-sky chance you decide to do so, please just drop me an e-mail.

As though that weren’t enough, we obtained, measured out and cut some 1/2″ maple for Stilgar’s new snake cage, which we’ll probably be starting sometime next week after the wood has acclimated. Also, we finally got around to making grape jelly out of the Lucie Kuhlman and L’Acadie that Jodi had stolen from work from the leavings that the harvester didn’t catch. As we’re going to have a fairly tight Christmas, we’re planning on using the tiny 125ml jars we’ve made to pass around to our friends and family. Such is the life when one of you works seasonally, and you have a wedding and honeymoon planned in the extreme short-term. The stuff is great, at that. A bit too thick — we used a bit of extra pectin, second-guessing the recipe — but still damn good. Tastes almost appley (again, probably due to the pectin).

Oh, and Jodi started a character on Borderlands (which I very recently obtained). Lilith, naturally. Despite having less FPS experience, she’s absurdly good at getting headshots with scoped guns… better than I am. Maybe she should have picked Mordecai. Then again, Mordecai’s not a hot woman.

I guess I missed another Sunday post. Oh well. We atheists don’t really put much stock in Sundays anyway — they’re just another day of the week. And I was too busy living my own life to worry about ranting about idiots that want to tell others how to live theirs. I’ll try to put something together tonight, while I’m waiting for tape drives to fill. Unless I manage to get XP on a partition on this laptop, in which case I’ll be installing Borderlands.

How was your weekend?

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Epic weekend was epic
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2 thoughts on “Epic weekend was epic

  1. 1

    We did our invitations ourselves too, and they came out better than anything I ever would have found in a catalog without paying an arm and a leg for.

  2. 2

    I’m still waiting to do the dist-upgrade to 9.10 from 9.04 on both mine and my wife’s PCs. After reading the 9.10 release notes, I know that I’m sticking with ext3 for the time being. I’m also going to remember to re-enable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace on them too. I like being able to restart X that way when necessary.

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